Ok, so if I retrieve using an XQuery, with fn: serialize, I can plug in the
doctypes - something like this:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
xquery version "3.0";
let $doc := fn:doc("db/doc.xml")
let $docpublic := $doc//othermeta[name='docpublic']/@value
let $docsystem := $doc//othermeta[name='docsystem']/@value
let $options :=
<output:serialization-parameters>
<output:doctype-public>{$docpublic}</output:doctype-public>
<output:doctype-system >{$docsystem}</output:doctype-system >
</output:serialization-parameters>
return
fn:serialize($doc,$options)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
However, the output comes back with < and > instead of angle brackets,
which raises a parse error. I've experimented with various options to
serialize, but with no success.
What am I doing wrong?
regards
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From: Christian Grün [[email protected]]
Sent: 02 November 2012 19:58
To: Roy MacLean
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Newbie Question - DOCTYPE declarations
Hi Roy,
if documents are parsed and stored as XML, they will be normalized
and, in this process, some meta information, such as the doctype
declaration, is lost. The same applies e.g. to text declarations
(<?xml ...?> or entities.
With XQuery and other interfaces, it is possible to serialize
documents with doctype declarations [1]. Unfortunately, there is no
way to do so with WebDAV (or at least none of which I have heard so
far) as WebDAV was designed to completely work out of the box.
There is a “dirty” trick, however: if you precede your XML documents
with a whitespace, they will be stored as "raw" files in the database.
This way, you won't be able to apply XQuery etc. to that documents, as
BaseX builds no internal index representations for those resources,
but you'll get a 100% lossless version back.
Hope that helps,
Christian
[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Serialization
___________________________
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Roy MacLean
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> How (if at all) can I preserve the DOCTYPE declarations in the XML documents
> loaded into a database.
> I've read the documentation pages on Parsers and Catalogs, but I can't see
> what allows me to do this.
>
> My editor accesses the files via WebDAV ok, but it needs the DOCTYPE for
> further processing.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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